The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

Ex per ness, On Friday th e last but one of the most important and valuable seri es of experiments which have been conducted at th is practice-ground by the members of the Iron-plat , 3 Committee was made, in the pre. Bence of one faf the largest assemblages of naval and military alficers and scientific gentlemen that have ever yet attended the trial of any target. Among others present were Lord Mountcharles, Lord Dufferin, Lord Torrington, General Sir Harry Jones, Mr. Thomas Page, C.E., Mr. W. Fairbairn, Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, Captain Heath, R.N., Captain Derriman, R.N., the Hon. Captain Eger too, R.N., Admiral Halstead, Captain Caffin, R.N., Colonel Lefroy, Sir J. D. Hay, R.N., Commander Hugh Burgoyne, the Hon. Colonel Wrottesley, Commander Scott, Sir William Armstrong, Mr. P. Roit, Mr. Whitworth ; Admiral Frederick, Admiral Robinson, Admiral Grey, Admiral Drummond, Colonel Jervis, Major Alderson, Capt. W. Palliser, Captain Fowke, Colonel Hogg, Captain Key, R.N., Colonel Galwey, Colonel Baynes, Mr. E. J. Reed, Naval Constructor ; Captain Harrison, Professor Pole, Colonel Henderson, the Hon. Mr. St. Maur, Mr. Reed, R.N., Mr. Bascombe, Major-General Taylor, General Rumley, Captain Dyer, &c. The target, which was 20ft. by 9ft., was con structed after the pattern of the Lord Warden, which is building at Chatham, and represented the ordinary broadside of a wooden ship armour-plated, with the addition of an iron skin outside the frame timbers. These frame timbers were of Eng lish oak 12-fin. thick, strengthened by connecting diagonal iron riders or bands 6in. wide by thick. Outside this came the inner pla n ki ng, Bin, thick, and then a complete easing of wrought iron, ltin. thick. Outside this casing aga i n was of oak, which was again protected by rolled armour plates, 41-in. thick by 20ft, lon g an d 4f t. w i de. Thus the total thickness of the target or, as we may call it, the Lord Warden, on the model of which ship the target was built was 35fin., of which 6in. were iron and 29fin. oak. In addi tion to this mass there were four oak deck beams averaging 15in. by 15in, square, and a massive iron knee to each beam weighing nearly 4cwt. The armour-plate bolts were 2fin, is diameter, and the beams which represented the upper and lower deck, and which were 4in. thick, and laid longitudinally along the back of the target, getT3 additional stiff ness to the whole. In theory it was supposed that the inner plate of lfin. thick coming between the masses of oak inside the 41in. armour-plate would be sufficient to keep out any shot—a theory which proved totally groundless when it came to be tested by the downright matter of fact arguments of steel shot from the heaviest battery which has ever been directed• against a target at Shoeburyness. There were six guns in position opposite the target, all made on Sir William's coil principle, and rifled on his shunt plan, which threw steel shot from 1001 b, to 3001 b. weight, and were fired with charges vary ing from 2511). to 501 b. of powder. As the results are what principally interest the public on these occasions, it is needless to go through a long detail of every shot fired. It will be sufficient to say that every shot went completely through the outside armour-plate, and made its effects more or less seriously manifest on the interior backing, This is what the least effective of the missiles accomplished, and proved at once that 4fin. of outside armour have no manner of chance egainst even 100-pouuders loaded with steel shot. The result with these shunt guns and steel pro jectiles was at least 200 per cent. greater than was ever effected about a year ago with Sir Wil liam's breech-loader and the conical-headed cast. iron shot. Admiral Frederick's light 7-inch gun did a great deal more than conic" have been ex pected, but the performances of all were, as a matter of course, eclipsed by the heavy 9-22- inch gun of Sir William, loaded with 441 b, of powder, and a 22010. steel shot. This gun was in tended for a 300-pounder, but instead of being bored out to 101 in., was only of the calibre we have stated, leaving the inercasecl thickness of metal to enable the piece to withstand almost any charge of powder or shot. This tremendous steel bolt struck the target with a velocity of 1,450 ft. a second, and not only went clear through, but went on through par of the bank beyond and fell nearly a mile out to sea, The ruin which it made at the back of the target was complete. At the part it struck huge ragged splinters were scattered far and wide, and one of the massive iron knees was broken off and whirled away some 30 yards to the back, striking a block of granite in its passage, and shivering a crowd of little fragments out of it. What such a " knee " would have done traversing the crowded 'tween deck of a man of-war it is almost fearful to contem plate, and the amount of heavy rough splinters thrown about showed at once that Mr Reed has made a serious mistake in not having an inner lining of wrought iron to keep these murderous auxiliaries from assisting the work of the enemy's shot. The Somerset 9.22-inch gun, which only weighs 63 tons, was intended for a smooth-bore spherical 100- pounder, but the piece tried en Friday was rifled, and thus improved it may be said to have accom plished great things, if we leave out of sight the fact that it is more than four years ago since Mr Whitworth sent his 70-pounder shot through the 4-inch armour of the Trusty. This Somerset gun, loaded with a steel shell of 1701 b., with a bursting charge of 71b. of powder, and fired with 201 b. charge, went through both outer and inner plates and the intervening oak, where it burst, and so shattered the interior backing of all as to make it evident that all the pumping resources of a steam frigate could scarcely keep down such a leak, and that two would settle the question of her flotation ire ten minutes. It failed, however, to get right through the target, though the partial hole which it made soon afterwards afforded a striking illustra tion of the importance of getting a shell through the armour of these iron -clads. Another 1701 b, steel shell, with a 7!b. bursting charge, was fired, and struck the hole made by the previous shell we have just mentioned as establishing the leak. This second shell passed through the armour-plate and lodged in the oak firmly, bursting and blowing i ts charge forward like a gun. It is difficult to de. scribe accurately the tremendous destruction whi c h this small charge produced. It shattered the Sack of the target to splinters, drove one of the armour bolts deep into the beam supporting the target, wrenched cff and blew away to some distance one of the massive knees, and covered the ground far and near with fragments of the oak, each heavy enough and hurled with sufficient force to have cut a man in two. Anything mere terrible than the cffectof such a shell on the crew of a ship it would be difficult to conceive, end it was a pity that the Lords of the Admiralty (who generally contrive to leave the practice-ground before the weakness of their ships is incontestably demonstrated) had not remained to behold the total destruction which this shell caused. Another shot fired from Sir William's 101-inch 300-pounder, with a 451 b. charge, went through the lower part of the target, which was comparatively uninjured, with the same ease and destructive effect that the previous 220ib. shot had passed through the upper. Some experiments were also tried with the chilled cast..iron shot, cast on Capt. W. Palliser's principle, the results of which were equally sur prising and important. Hitherto the effect pro duced by firing against armour plates with cast iron shot his been almost absolutely nothing ; in fact, to use the Duke of Somerset's expression in a recent debate, it has been• like p e l t i ng the targets with mud. During the last two or three years, however, Captain Palliser, of the 18th Hussars, has conducted, at his own expense, a series of mo s t important experiments on casting shot in cold i ron mould instead of hot sand ones, by which, w i thout adding a fraction to the cost of casting, b ut , on the contrary, reducing it by about .Id. per shot, h e chills the outside of the metal into the hardnees of steel, end obtains with a cast projectile which costs about 2s. a result almost equal to that of a steel shot which costs 503. The shot tried on Friday were only 100 .ponnders from the Fiederick gun with a 20ib charge, but in every case they went clear through the 4fin, armour plate and deep into the backing beyond. o+lo of the peculiarities of Captain Palliser's most valuable discovery is that after accomplishing its work through the armour plate his shot breaks up iota minute fragments o: from four to eight ounces weight, so that in fact the projectile carries in itself almost the penetra tive powers of steel shot, and the explosive frag ments of the most powerful shell. No opportunity was af f orded on Friday of judging the effect which these fragments would produce, as Capt. Palliser had not shot large enough for the guns which could have sent them tnrough the 35in. of mixed oak an I iron that composed the target. But not the slightest doubt appeared to remain in the minds of thosepre sent that if a sufficiently large projectile was used it would pierce the target, and its breaking up prove as advantageous, in point of destructiveness, as the largest shell. Of all the discoveries which Shoeburyness has brought forward few promise to be more valuable to the country than this of the chilled shot of Captain Palliser, and it is to be hoped that their utility will soon be tried on a more extended scale than was possible on Fri day. We may also add that Capt. Palliser has, by the simple proccss of lining our cast-iron guns with wrought-iron coils, discovered a means of rendering our old cast ordnance available as rifled cannon. This plan has been tried at Woolwich and found to answer even beyond the hopes of its inventor, and the acres of guns now l y i ng at the Arsenal and our various dockyards can soon, and at small expense, be converted int o r ifl e d or d nance on any pattern which the result of the Whitworth and Armstrong trials may induce the Government to adopt. Too high praise can scarcely be given to the exertions of a young cavalry officer, who, conducting expe• riments at his own expense, has now brought for ward results which, in the matter of cast shot and rifling our cast guns, will effect a saving of millions to the country. After these experiments the target was in such a state of rui❑ that there was no place left sufficiently sound on which to try the effect of another pro. jectile. The general plan of the target was not considered very satisfactory. The outside 4iin. armour plate and the liin. plate between the oak gives a weight of six inches of armour to be carried by the ship, but dividing the plates in the manner we have stated gives very little more than half the resisting power which would be afforded by six inches of iron rolled into one plate. The want of iron lining to check the splintering of the target seems also to be considered a grave defect. Had the outer armour plate been 51 inches instead of 4i, and had the other half inch been used as a lining to the oak inside, very different results would have been gained as to the resistance of the mass, and the splinters would have been done away with almost entirely. The armour plates, which were manufac tured by the Millwall Company, deservedly attracted the highest praise. Though pierced in alt directions there was not the slightest sign of a crack to be found in any part. Better plates have seldom been seen at Shoebury. AMERICA. The special correspondent of the New York Times with the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac writes from Cold Harbour, near the Chickahominy, Friday, Jane 3, 10 p.m. : " Judged by the severity of the encounter and the heavy losses we have experienced, the engagement which opened at grey dawn this morning, and spent its fury in little over an hour, should take its place among the battles of the war ; but viewed in its relations to the whole campaign —it is, per haps, hardly more than a grand reconnaissance—a reconnaissance, however, which has cost us not less than 5,000 or 6,000 killed and wounded. The ob ject of the action was to force the passage of the Chickahominy, on the north side of which and cover ing the roads to Richmond the rebels had planted themselves in a fortified line. What we have done is to feel this line by a vigorous attack, in which, though geining some temporary successes, and at one or two points actually carrying the enemy's works, we have, on the whole, reached the conclu sion that any victory that could here be won must cost too much in its purchase. Ido not say this as speaking with any authority, but only as recording the general conviction of the army. Such convic tion, however, when the common judgment of such men as have to-day led their lines against the enemy, is apt to be of itself authority, and hence I ' think I may so fely predict that there will be no renewal of the assault on the lines of the Chicka hominy; that we must look to the resources of strategy to plant this army in a position where, being at less of a disadvantage, its valour will have a better promise of adequate reward. It is in this view that the action of to-clay assumes to me the aspect of a great reconnaissance. But it might easily have been more. Were prudence not as much a characteristic of Lieutenant-General Grant's mind as pluck, did he not know as well low and when to cry a halt as to order an advance, he might have pushed the action from a reconnaissance to a bloody battle ; but to me it is clear we should have had only another Fredericksburg and its useless slaughter. General Grant is not so poor in resource that he need do this; and I think already his eyes are turned away from the Chickahominy to lines and combinations more bold than any yet essayed.' After a lengthened view of the situation which led up to the battle on Friday, he goes on to describe the event thus : " In saddle at 4 o'clock in the morning, the grey light of dawn is struggling through a thick envelope of clouds, and a light pattering rain is falling. Our men still lie behind the breastworks, worn out with the work of the night ; the rebels, too, lie behind their intrenchments, and only the sleepless pickets peer with wary eyes forward through the dusk of the woods. All is still as the grave; yet in 30 minutes the storm of battle will burst forth along a stretch of six miles. There is but time to take a glance at the lines. Here on the left wing of the army is the corps of Hancock (the 2d), connecting with him on the right and forming the left centre, is Wright's (the 6th); then Smith's (the 18th), which holds the centre; next comes Warren's (the Oth), which forms the right centre, and then Burnside's (the 9th), which holds the extreme right. Our line runs almost parallel with the Chickahominy and from one and a half to two and a half miles north of it. On the left wing we approach nearest the river; on the right we are somewhat refused. Hancock, holding the left wing, rests across the Despatch Station road (.hat is, the road leading from Cold Harbour to Des ! patch Station); our right is across the Totopamoy. The rebel front is formed immediately in front of the Chickahominy, in three lines (two lines of battle and a skirmish line), on an irregular line to conform with the woods and ridges and swamps of the ground. Between the two armies is a low swampy region whose dark h o ll ows will soon be lit up with the fires of death. Suddenly from behind the rude tpoaraarpmest, thethe m reis an upstartin g, a no i seless springing muffled co mmends of eflicers forming the line. The attack was order e d f or 4 30 and it may have been five minutes a f ter that, or, it may was not later have been ten minces, but it certai n l y than 4 45, when the whole line was i n mot i on. Skirmishers are thrown out and pres e ntly meet th e enemy's pickets as we learn by the sm art fusilade we hear. O ur art ill er y opens, the reb e l s respond, and in a moment the deadly conflict is joined. The metaphysicians say that time is naught,is but a Cate. gory of thought, and I think it must be so, for into ten mortal minutes this morning was crowded an a ge of action. Ten minutes of the figment men call time, and yet that scant space decided a battle ! There ere a thousand details, ten thousand episodes, but the essential matter is this, that that first rush of advance carried our whole front butt up against the line of works, which we were unable to break through, or, breaking through, were unable to hold. Conceive of this in the large—the fierce onslaught amid deafening volleys of musketry and the thunder cf artillery, and the wild, mad yell of battle, and see the ranks mowed down, sod the lines break here and there, and the sullen, obstinate retreat, every inch contested, and we shall then be able to descend to some of the points of action as they individualise themselves along the line. Hancock held the left of the whole line of battle ; and of his three divisions, that of Barlow held the extreme left of the army, that of Gibbon was drawn on the right of Rirlow's, while Birney's divison was held in reserve. Of the ionr brigades of B.rlow's division, Brooks h:td ter l e ft sipd Miles the right— brigade in double THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING JUNE 20, 18M. line of battle. Smith, commanding the Irish Bri gade, was placed in support. The left was protected by refusing it, the third brigade being disposed so as to cover that flank. The formation of Gibbon's division on the right of Barlow was similar. Tyler's brigade (heavy artillery) holding the right, Smith's the centre, and Owen's the left—M‘Kean in rear of Tyler's centre, in two lines. On Hancock's line there were but few places where artillery could be used with effect. Barlow had directed that his attacking brigades should, previously to the assault, be moved out, and formed just in rear of the picket i line. From this point they advanced for half a mile through woods and over open intervals under 1 severe square up to the enemy's works. That por tion of his front where the right of Miles's brigade joined with the left of Brooks's—the same brigades that so brilliantly carried the famous salient in the lines of Spottsylvania—succeed in a similar splendid coup here ; they got over and into the enemy's parapet, capturing his guns (four light 12- pounders), his colours, and 500 or 600 prisoners„ about 300 of whom were secured by promptly pass ing them to the rear. The storming column, in fact, were just turning the enemy's guns on the retreat ing rebels, when powerful reinforcements from the second rebel line appeared advancing. The first rebel line was held by Breckinridge's troops and was carried, but Lee is too good a General to leave a point so important thus weakly defended. B reek inridge's men were placed in the fore front to re ceive the baptism of fire, but behind these jay the veterans of Hill's corps, and it is these we now see dashing forward to retrieve the honours we had snatched. Barlow's brigades —stout hearts not used to pale before the greatest odds—could have held their own under conditions the least short of desperation, but the situation in which they now found themselves overleaped its limits. It was not merely the overwhelming front that came pressing down upon them, of that they had no fear, but the position they had gained placed them in advance of the ','hole line of battle, and gave the rebel artillery the opportunity for a deadly enfilad ing fire. Besides this, they had lost the directing heads of two of the chief commanders. Brooks and Byrnes, ' souls of courage all compact,' fell mortally wounded, and all the organizations had suffered fearfully from an unparalleled loss of officers. In this state of facts they fell back, bringing with them the prisoners they had taken, and a captured:colour, but not the guns. They fell back, but not to their original position ; to a position far in advance of that they had held, and at different points not more than 50 yards from the enemy. Here they intrenched, and here I leave them to pass on to Gibbon's division of the same corps on the right, and which was en gaged at the same time. Gibbon's advance was si multaneous with Barlow's, but in moving forward he came upon one of the swamps of the Chickahominy which had to be turned or overpassed, in the process of which it became very difficult to establish the connection between different parts of his line. This overcome, however, his troops pressed forward with the same vigour that marked the conduct of their companion division on the left, Parts of the bri gades of Tyler and 0 wen gained the rebel works, but for reasons identical with those that forced back Barlow's troops they also were compelled to give up what they had won. Gibbon's division, too, lost very heavily. Gen. Tyler, before reaching the works, was carried off the field, shot in the ancle. One of his regimental commanders, Colonel Porter, of the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery, was killed ; im mediately after, Lieut.-Colonel Bates fell dead. An other of his regimental commanders, Col. M'Mahon of the 161 th New York, was struck while planting his colours on the rebel works, and was left a prisoner in the enemy's hands, his troops not supporting him after he was wounded. Owen's brigade lost two entire companies taken prisoners inside of the enemy's intrenchments. In giving way, Gibbon's division also was fir from losing all the ground it had gained. It took an advanced position close to the enemy, and just over the crest, the rearward slope of which was held by the rebels. This position it has retained during the day, and M'li.an's brigade has held all day a position within 15 yards of the enemy's works. Not until the splendid attack of Hancock'scorps had been made,not till after its blood-bought victory had been wrested from our hands, was he or any man in this army aware of the supreme importance of the position this morning carried and lost. The key-point of the battle of Gaines' Mills, two years ago, it is strange and morti fying that no one should have appreciated its value. This position is a bald hill, named Watts'-hill, dominating the whole battle ground, and covering the angle of the Despatch-road. Along this ridge the rebel works formed a salient, and in front of it was a sunken road. Of this road Hancock got pos session, and the brigades of Miles and Brooks ac tuully struck and carried the work directly on the salient I Had we held this point, we would have had a position whence the entire rebel line might have been enfiladed ; and I think it is not too much to say that the day would have been ours, and Lee pushed across the Chickahominy. Had we even known in advance its commanding importance very different dispositions for attack would have been made ; we would have massed on the left, and made the victory a certainty. These considerations certainly inspire bitter regrets; but who does not know that it is on such contingencies that the fate of battles often hangs ? Simultaneously with the attack of the Second Corps, the Sixth, under Wright, connecting on the left with Hancock, made a general advance at a quarter before 5 o'clock— each division assaulting on the entire line. 01 this corps, the Second Division (M'Neill) held the right, the Third Division (Rickets) the centre, and the First Division (Russell) the left. Five batteries under charge of the Chief of the Artillery of the Second Corps. Colonel Tompkins—namely, Adams' First Rhode Island Battery, Cowan's First New York (Independent), Hahn's Third New York (In dependent), INl'Curtin's First Massachusetts, and Rhode's First Rhode leland were planted in good positions and did effective service in covering the advance. The assault of the Sixth Corps was made with the utmost vigour, and succeeded in carrying the first line of rebel rifle pits along its entire front, and got up within 250 yards of the main works. Smith's corps, connecting on the right with the Sixth, had advanced in conjunction with it; but the left division, that of Martindale, who led the attack in heavy, deep columns, got disarranged, and was repulsed. General Smith made three different attacks to relieve Martindale, but his last supports did not get up in time to allow him to hold on, The effect of this repulse on the left of Smith had a disastrous effect on the position of Wright. It uncovered the right flank of the 6th and exposed Rickett's division, which was stoutly holding the advanced position, to a savage fire on the prolongation of its line. In this state of facts to retain possession of a position somewhat in ad vance of his point of starting was the utmost Gen. Wright could possibly do. Operations along the fronts of Warren and Burnside were of on impor tance quite subordinate to that of operations on the left. No results were achieved except the carryiny of the line of rifle-pits occupied by the rebel skir mishers. The Fifth and Ninth Corps nowhere struck the enemy's main work. Burnside kep up a furious cannonade for some hours, bu :"- it was nothing--vox et preterea nihil. From the tenor of one of Burnside's morning de spatches it was at one time hoped that he would b© able to turn the enemy's left, but this hope also was doomed to disappointment." pinvErvr7sExt rwr.l—Consumption, all nervous, bilious liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag gravated and acce lerated by drugs o f every d escr i ption, but pert ec:ly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalento Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had b een considered hopeless. we quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914. Y ears of age, cared after the medi ca l men h a d abandonedtissLange, 18 all hopes of her recovery from the last stage of pulmonary consumption, with f - arful cough, expectoration, exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow cheek; emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfectly healthy, blooming, fieshy girl,—N. Lange, Commissaire do No, 4,3,2,...0. 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His hither was De puty to the Diet of Poland, and was one of the most atelent supporters of the independence of his country. bembinski received his military education the Military Schools of Vienna, and on complutiug his studies was offered a com mission in ,the Austrian service. He declined it, and joined at 3 private volunteer the ranks of the national army cf the grand duchy of Warsaw, and subsequently entered the Polish Legion in the service of France. He went through the campaign of 1812, and received his captain's commission and the Cross of the Legion of Hone& from Napoleon after the battle of Smolentko He was present at Leipsic, where he greatly distinguished himself. On the fall of the Empire he returned to Poland, baffled like so many others of his countrymen, in his hopes of the recon stitution esf r 2 oland as an independent State by the man wltoai they had faithfully served. He was elected member el the Diet in 1825. When the Revolution of 1830 broke out Dembinski was named Colonel of the regiment which he had raised in the palatinate of Cracow, and on his ar rival at Warsaw with his men was promoted by the Gene ral-in-Chief, Skreyneck, whose-aide-de-camp he had been when in the service of France, to the command of a bri gade of Lancers, at the head of which he greatly distin guished himself. His conduct in the affair of Oatrolenska, the combat of Raygrod, and the successful retreat of Kurs• zawy (July 1831), procured for him the rank of General of Division. On his return to Warsaw, after 26 days' con stant movement, during which he marched 300 leagues, baffling when he did not beat his enemy, he was received by the population with the greatest enthusiasm, and the Chambershad unanimously voted that Dembi ns ki an d hi s army deserved evell of the country. He was soon after named to the command-in-chief of the national army. With a view to put a stop to the dissensions which had broken out among the Poles, caused by their own rivalries, and fomented by Russian agency, he aimed at a military dictatorship—but his attempt failed—he lost his popularity, and fell from power. When Warsaw surrendered Dem binski took refuge in Prussia with the remnant of Rylinaki's corps, but in consequence of the remonstrances of Prince Paskiewitch, he was soon forced to quit the country. He j retired to Dresden, and finally took up his abode in France, where he published an account of the campaign in Lithu ania. In 1833 he set out for Egypt, and took service with Mehemet Ali. In 1835 he returned to Paris, and published a work in the Polish language on the state and prospects of his native country. The revolution of February caused him once more to leave France; he went to Breslau and Prague, and was present at the Congress of the Slave patriots held in those cities. He proceeded to Hungary, and offered his services to the Maygar Government, then menaced by the army of Windischgrata. He was appointed by Kossuth to the command-in-chief of the insurrectionary army, and drew up a plan of campaign, but did not succeed in obtaining the adhesion of Georgey, whose tardiness in joining him occasioned the loss of the battle of Kapolna on the 28th of February, 1849. Forced to retreat behind the Theiss, he resigned his powers, which were transferred to Georgey. He stayed two months at Debreczin, aiding by his counsels the Magyar Government, which had definitively broken with Austria. He earnestly advocated the neces sity of uniting the cause of Hungary to that of Poland, and urged an expedition to Galicia. His plan being rejected, he refused to take the command of the army of the north, but at the approach of the Russians accepted the post of Quartermaster-General, under Messaros,who had succeeded Georgey in the command of the army in July, 1849. The army retreated on Szegedin, where the Government was then installed. An engagement took place at Szdreg on the sth of August, in which he was defeated. He at once marched on Temesvar, and in front of that city fought his last and unsuccessful battle with the Austro- Russian army. The retirment of Kossuth from the Dicta. torship and the capitulations concluded by Georgey at Vela gos on the 13th of August put an end to the struggle, which indeed had long become hopeless. Dembinski, with other chiefs, sought refuge on the Turkish territory, reached Widden, then Shurela, and finally was claimed by the French Embassy at Constantinople as a naturalised French man, He returned to France, and in 1850 fixed his abode in Paris, where he remained till the day of his death. He is said to have occupied the last tight years of hie life in writing a history of the war in Hungary. Dembinski was a sincere and disinterested patriot, but kept apart to the last from the democratic revolutionists, with whom he never had the slightest sympathy. He was greatly respected, and is regretted by all who had the advantage of knowing RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, I. LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN. The adjourned Wharneliffe, meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at the Euston station ; Mr. It. Moon, the chairman, presided. Mr E. STEWART, the secretary, having read the notice of adjournment, The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution approving a bill for conferring additional powers on the London and North-Western Railway Company for the construction of works, and otherwise in relation to their own undertaking, and the undertakings of other companies, for authorising the abandonment of certain railways and for other pur poses. Mr BLWWN-WESTHEAD, M.P., seconded the motion, and it was earned unanimously. On the motion of the Cir.A.rroci.N seconded by Mr BROWN-WESTHEID, the following bills were unanimously approved :—A bill for the construction of railways in the county of Lancaster, to be called " The Lancashire Union Railways" and for other purposes; a bill for vesting the undertaking of the St. Helen's Canal and railway Company in the London and North-Western Railway Corisq any; a bill fur authorising a lease of a portion of the undertaking of the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Naviga tion to the Company of Proprietors of the Canal Navigation from Leeds to Liverpool, and of the remainder thereof to the London and North-Western Railway Company and for other purposes; a bill to authorise the construction of rail ways or tramways from the town of Ilolywell to Greenfield, in the county of Flint, and to the Hollywall sta. ion of the Chester and Hollyhead railway, and for other purposes; and a bill for conferring further powers on the Great Western Railway Company for the construction of works and the acquisition of lands, and otherwise in relation to their own undertaking, and the undertakings of other com panies and persons, and for other purposes. The meeting was then adji.urned to Wednesday, the 29th inst., at noon, when it was hoped the business of the \Vharn cliffs meetings would be included. It appears that the directors of this company had resolved to allot to their proprietors rateably, at par, additional ordi nary stock to the amount of about £1,300,000, equivalent to about 5 per cent. on the ordinary capital. The allotments will be made to the proprietors registered on the 18th inst. in the form of ordinary stock, to be fully paid up on Aug. 1 1 next, but carrying ordi nary di v i dend from July , 186 k. gow on Tuesday to consider the Glasgow Union Railway Bill, Sir A. Orr in the chair. Mr IVAiNwßtowr, the secretary, having read the notice con,:ening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN explained that the directors highly ap proved the measure, which they considered Very important to the company. The directors had made vei7 Satisfactory arrangements fet titr*.t:on accommodation and for working icAer the proposed line, which would establish a communi cation between the railways on the north and south of the Clyde. The company's present station in Glasgow was very incomplete and inadequate for their increasing traffic; but by the proposed scheme they would get into a very ad mirable central station in one of the best places in Glasgow. The Glasgow Union Railway when constructed would be of immense benefit to the city of Glasgow and to the rail ways having their termini in it, both on the north and south of the Clyde. He concluded by moving a formal resolution approving the Bill. Mr J. LUMSDEN wended the motion. Mr W. AULD objected to subscribing £250,000 towards the undertaking, but after a very long discussion and ex planations by the cnairman in favour of the measure the resolution approving the Bill was adopted. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE " MORNING POST" ON THE CONFERENCE.-- On Saturday the Conference again met, and, after a sitting of nearly four hours, separated without having arrived at any positive result. Indeed, so far as we can ascertain, the resumption of hostilities on the 26th may be considerel at this moment quite as probable as it was before the meeting. A pro• pose! was made to submit the question of the frontier line to arbitration ; and we believe it met with the same success that has hitherto attended other sug gestions—it was referred to the belligerent Govern ments, by whom there seems little prospect of its being entertained. Our readers will not fail to observe that the mere fact of this proposal having been made is a virtual departure from that of a boundary line of the Schlei and Dannewerke, as submitted by England on the 28th of May, and accepted by the other neutrals, and by Denmark itself. The German Plenipotentiaries at the meet ing on Saturday threatened to have recourse to privateering against Denmark if the blockade should be renewed on the expected recommencement of hostilities. The feeling appears to become more embittered at each succeeding assembly of the Congress. " THE OBSERVER" ON THE CONFERENCE.—The London Conference has given rise to hot and cold fits on the part of the susceptible public—alternate days of hope and of despair. In spite of all the desperate aspirations of irresponsible writers and speakers after war, the party of peace is still the most numerous. The friends of peace are by no means confined to the Stock Markets and counting houses of Europe. The clamourers for a more "spirited" course of foreign policy have always the best of the declamation ; but the friends of calm and prudential action are likely to last the longest, and to get the best of the argument in the end. When it was found the Conference was put off from Thurs day to Saturday all sorts of alarming and suspicious reasons were given for the delay, although some— perhaps more sagacious —argued that the delay was arranged to give a better chance of coming to a pre liminary t‘greement. The thermometer fell lower and lower when it was given out that the Conference would not meet on Saturday. It was even said to have been put off indefinitely. Most of the papers i❑ Paris, and some in London, continued up to yes terday morning to assert that the meeting was again postponed. The Stock Exchange was, therefore, reassured when it was known that the Conference met at the appointed hour of one o'clock yesterday, and that it was attended by all the members accre dited from the several courts. There seems to be some ground for this favourable view, for it would appear as if the delay had been turned to good ac count, and that the Conference had really been reassembled for the despatch of business. We are glad to be able to raise higher the hopes of those who are inclined to draw this not unnatural or strained inference when we inform them that the sitting of the Conference was unusually long. They met at one o'clock, and did not break up till nearly six in the afternooo, about the same time that the Cabinet rose, which had assembled at three o'clock. The Conference is summoned to meet again on Wed. nesday, at three o'clock. From all these circum stances it is not difficult to infer that some arrange ment is likely to be arrived at in spite of the mis givings of those who, for reasons sufficiently ob ♦ious, desired a contrary conclusion. There were wanting persons who predicted the breaking off of the negotiations, and busied themselves rather pre maturely ig diecuesing the consequences of the re newal of hostilities. It is not improbable that some of these consequences may have had their effect in producing, at all events, a more grave considera. Lion of the means for bringing about the settle ment of these troublesome questions, and withdraw ing from the market the difficulties that have hung over the whole condition of Europe for So long a period. " THE STANDARD" ON THE CONFERENCE.—The Conferences of London are virtually at an end. The war will be resumed next Monday. The plenipotentiaries met on Saturday only to prove that there was no possibility of their coming to an agreement, and they meet on Wednesday only to set their hands to a formal certificate of that impossibility. We understand that Earl Russell, abandoning, as we Intimated that he would do, his own frontier line, proposed that the division should be left to arbitration; that this proposal was rejected most decisively by both the Danish and German plenipotentiaries, the Germans 'insisting upon the line from Apenrade to Tondern, the Danes adhering to that by the Schlei and the Dannewerke. The English proposal was, indeed, taken ad referendum, but all parties declared their certain conviction that their respective Governments would not entertain it for a moment. The significance of the sitting of Saturday does not, however, con sist so much in the rejection of this absurd s c h eme of the English Government as in the general tone of the discussion and the nature of the pretensions raised in it. We are informed that the German representatives, in compliance, of course, with their instructions, adopted a most arrogant and over bearing manner, as well towards England as Den mark, and that the deliberations, which were pro traeted over five hours, ought rather to be termed recriminations. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON THE POSITION OF THE GOVERNMENT.—The weakness of the Go vernment is so apparent, and produces so much con fusion in the transaction of the ordinary business of Parliament, that the Opposition naturally asks with eagerness whether the time is not come to make a great effort for place and power. There can be no doubt that the country is suffering from the inability of the Government to devise and carry out a definite policy. It is not only that a cloud rests over all our foreign relations, and that we spend week after week of uncertainty whether war may not end the negotiations on which we have wasted so many well -meant endeavours for half a year, but there is nothing done at home. The Ca vernment cannot carry any measures of its own, it cannot secure the success of the independent mem bers whom it supports, and it cannot shape the course and economise the time of Parliament so as to afford a proper opportunity for the passing of measures of local importance. It is only the per sonal reputation of the Cabinet, and a sense that it has done some things well in former sessions, that saves the Government from sinking into a position like that which was held by the Melbourne Ministry in the last years of its existence. Lord Palmerston has not quite reached that level of humiliation at which the head of the Government is treated with a patronising contempt by the head of the Opposition. But this is principally because he is Lord Palmerston, and because his chief opponent is, not Sir R. Peel, but Mr Disraeli. In every step the Ministry takes, in its whole attitude to the country and the House, there is felt the want of a strong and a guiding hand. Lord Palmerston has gained much experience; he is more moderate and farsighted than he was 20 years ago; but it is impossible to believe that the Danish business would be in the state in which it is now if the diplomatists of Europe had had to do with the Palmerston of 184 1. But a country cannot for ever retain its statesmen in the prime of their days, and the nation has shown beyond question that it thinks the quali• ties which the Premier has certainly gained more than compensation for those which he may possibly have lost. England is the most faithful of all nations to its political favourites, and when it has once given its esteem and confidence it is very slow to with draw them. It would be very untrue to say that the country is tired of Lord Palmerston, or wishes to get rid of him. But there is a general feeling that the position which Lord Palmerston now holds is not the proper position for him, nor one that be comes his reputation or is on a level with the expec tations of his countrymen. It was hoped that, e whatever oth er s h ortcom i ngs he might display, he would at lea s t b e f ree f rom the indecision which leaves th, country and the H ouse o f C om mons with out the rul er t h at both need. Longsuffer gas England i s , an d steadfast in its admirat i on of the men it once raiees to eminence, it cannot be expected that Lord Palmerston could go through another Session like the present and nut throw something of a shadow over the brightness of his fame. THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE OPPOSITION,—AII through the week there have been rumours of coming disasters, and that dissonant gong the Herald has been struck to a jangling note of triumph, and in 511 clubs everybody with a promise of something, to be given " whenever we come in" has been exultant and mysterious. the report is that a vote condemning Ministe r#o,, nroposed, then there is a word rial tneddliti ' g s o l n of a resolution distinctly firro z of Denmark, and and anon Mr. Disraeli h as an id ea that aist.:N3P°- leonic Congress was a magnificent thought. It has all come to nothing. upon the great question of the hour, the defetnce of a little Power against dis memberment by two great Powers, the Tory leaders have no policy to propose. They and their chief assert very boldly that all that has been done is merely " meddle and muddle," but they neither propose to leave off meddling nor allow us any clear certainty that had they been in power the muddling would have been avoided, They know perfectly well that if Louis Napoleon will go forward so will the Whig Foreign Secretary, and as that is pre cisely their own idea they have nothing to say, ex cept that the Emperor might with a little tact have been kept in better temper. That assertion may be a sound political criticism, but it is not precisely a policy, and what more definite course has Lord Derby yet ventured to suggest? Apart from this great question there is nothing afoot which can heal the schism permanently produced by the pre sence of Mr. Disraeli. If Lord Derby asks his fol lowers to vote simply that they have no confidence in Lord Palmerston, fifty of them retort that they have less in the astute member for Bucks. Vet the Tory chief cannot, even if inclined, throw his lieu. tenant over, and without these fifty his majority is very far from assured. The old sore is unhealed as ever, and there is no healing it, and so the Ministry stumbles on, doing as little as possible, and the Op position follows after, criticising as much as is pos sible without incurring the risk of action, and the nation watches and begins to doubt whether prin ciple is, after all, at the bottom of the struggle for office, as it has always been told. The Tories may come in any day by virtue of an accidental majority, a victory they could not decline, or a rumour they could not refuse to hear; but for a planned and final assault the Opposi tion, numerically strong as it may be, allows itself still too weak. Of course in such a condition of affairs the influence of England abroad is for the moment gone. Her Government is only strong when a distinct line of action meets with the approval of Parliament, and at present the evil of the weakness of the Opposition is that neither approval nor disap proval can be made manifest. The leaders are afraid to demand a distinct verdict, and Parliament there. fore remains conscious of nothing except an indis tinct dislike to all that is going on,—to seeing Denmark dismembered, to hearing Heir von Bis mark exult, to any line of conduct which might prevent either of those annoyances. The Ministry hunts for middle paths, suggests lines of partition just north of the Dannewerke, tries to believe in universal suffrage, or asks whether arbitration may not do, and the Opposition, liking none of those things, is still afraid to oppose any. A vote of want of confidence distinctly rejected would deprive their accidental victories of all value, and they cannot risk the battle except on some point on which the schism in their own ranks will be unfelt. Conse quently they wait on, and the Ministry unopposed at home becomes more and more powerless abroad, till it seems almost certain that Conference will rise with nothing determined, and a campaign recom mence which must either develop into a conquest or a European war; but which will in either case leave on us the stain of inability to protect an ally on whose behalf we had threatened the only Power bound by permanent interests to ourselves. THE " EXAMINER" ON THE YELVERTON CASE. —Toe facts (to the common-place mind) would warrant the supposition that Mrs. Teresa Yelverton went, as she affirms, to Edinburgh with the fair hope and expectation of her betrothal ending in marriage. She took with her an elderly lady, and a young lady even younger than herself, as companions, and she proceeded to occupy with these friends a small apartment, all the rooms of which communi cated. She did not receive Maj. Yelverton in the even ings ; she did not receive him alone in the daytime. Her conduct was perfectly consistent with the idea that she was (as the landlady assumed) receiving decently and with propriety a respectable suitor, a gentleman and her equal. If she had desired, as suggested (nay, insisted on) by Major Yelverton's counsel, to come to Edinburgh merely to cohabit with him, what on earth was to prevent her from taking a lodging or apartments in that city or the suburbs, without occupants ? Why encumber her self voluntarily with witnesses of her irregular and vicious course of life ? Why have ladies to stay with her and embarrass her communications with her lover? Way not merely one of those small "flats," as they are called in the modern Athens, where a drawing.room and bedroom, or three small rooms, often constitute the whole allotment of space, utterly divided by the staircase from the higher and lower flats ? There no one could have pre vented her receiving whom she pleased for as many hours as she pleased, and there could be no after inquiry, nor after denials, such as " all landladies" make under the circumstances. It is obvious, if only from that fact alone, namely, the arrange ment as to lodging made by Mrs. Teresa Yelverton that she did not expect the misfortunes which have overtaken her " like a summer cloud" when she first went, glad and hopeful, to meet Major Yelverton in Scotland. " Sei la ben venuta !" says he, in the o3d, ungrammatical Italian which both parties oc casionally employ in their love-letters. " I did write her a small sentence in Italian to that effect," says Major Yelverton in his former examination. The smallness of the sentence appears to him a point for consideration. Like the maiden lady who was accused of having twins, and was defended on the plea that she had had but one, and that a very puny one,—the Major thinks too much stress should not be laid on a welcome so briefly ex pressed. " A small sentence in Italian !" Contra dicting, it is true, all his assertions that his "Pur suer" found out his address without his knowledge, and came without his knowledge, and came without his sanction ; but so short, so insignificant, such a nothing of a sentence to build a foundation upon! Still the briefest and simplest sentences have a meaning, and the deuce of it is, that by no possible intepretation can " Welcome !" be made to mean "Keep off!" THE " READER" ON THE UNPOPULARITY OF GREAT BRITAIN ABROAD.—Great Britain, it seems, is at this moment extremely unpopular with all the rest of the world. By some of the great Powers she is absolutely detested, others are unusaelly cold in their estimates of ter, and the one or two that are still kindly to her as a nation are sad on account of her present statesmanship. Such at least is the re port from all quarters, and there seem to be corro borations of its truth. Neither of the two Powers now at war with each other in America is satisfied with the conduct of Great Britain in reference to their struggle, and the feeling of the Federsls to wards her is one of actual bitterness. On the Con tinent, for some time past, but more especially since the war between the Germans and the Danes began, there has been a universal pointing of fingers, with hisses or other unflattering expressions, towards our tight little island. We have been snubbed by Russia for our officiousness in the matter of Poland, without any compensation in the way of respect or gratitude from the Poles. In France the selfishness and insular narrowmindness of Britain are at pre sent the favourite themes of journalists. As to Ger many—why there, it is said, we are in such dis favour on account of our behaviour in the Schleswig Holstein business that English tourists are every where, throughout the German States, received with the cold shoulder, and are even in risk of insult. The statement has been contradicted, but it has been made and repeated so strongly that it is impossible to suppose it wholly false. And thee, in poor little Denmark, where they do love us for the sympathy so generally shown among us for their cause, they are sorely disappointed that our sym pathy has been so barren of aught save words. In short, if there never has been a time when Britain was generally popular with other nations, she seems at present to be exceptionally unpopular all round. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON METROPOLITAN HORSE - COPERS.—Amongs the mysteries of horse ' flesh is the noble science of coping, and its practi tioners the horse-copers. These individuals prac tise fraud as a trade, and in order to do so they are obliged to pass through an apprenticeship as severe as that undergone by Fagan's school of young pick pockets. Your accomplished horse.coper must possess a shrewd knowledge of men to begin with, and secondly he must know horse flesh well, espe. chilly that portion of it in which he deals —the genus screw. He must be to his charges what Madame Rachel is to her old dowagers—able to restore them to youth and make them " beautiful for ever," or at least for the half hour during which it is necessary the screw should put in a good ap. pearance before his purchaser. The horses upon which copers operate are generally nags, such as hunters, roadsters, and carriage horses. They are k no wn under certain slang names, such as " the Adam," an aged horse; " the strong wid," one with broken wind ; the " piper," one slightly affected in his wind; the " knock," a lame horse; the " bobby," a chinked backed horse. These animals are generally showy-looking creatures, being selected for their handsome appearance and sprightly looks by the eoper,just as a bright palmer fly is se lected for trout fishing, and many of these horses remain the stock in trade of the same copers for years, as they generally contrive to repurchase them of their dupes, by the aid of confederates, a few days after the sale, for the mere value of the hides and hoofs. The getting-up of these old screws is the first care of the caper when they come into his hands. "The Adam," for instance, has to be re juvenated, and in order to accomplish this he has to undergo three processes—bishoping, gypping, and puSiog his glims. The first is the method of imitat ing the mouth-marks of a young horse, so called LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at Manchester; Mr G. A. Wilson in the chair. The object of the meeting was to approve the Blackburn, Chorley, Horwich, and Wigan Railway Bill now before Parliament. The heads of the bill, read by Mr Grundy, solicitor to the company, showed that the line would cost £210,000. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the approval of the bill, said that after a very long contest in Parliament the directors had succeeded in obtaining the line from Blackburn to Chor ley, and through Hird Hindley to Norwich. Their oppo• nents—the Lancashire Union Company—had had powers given them to be joint owners of the line to Blackburn, while the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company might join them in a line from Standish to Adlington. Substantially the Lon don and North Western Company would bring through this line at Blackburn, and of course this decision was very n u _ satisfactory to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Board, who were now in communication with the London and North Western Company to ascertain if more sati• factory arrange. meats could be m a d e . Th e i r oppo nents could not be said t o have fared very we ll i n t hi s con test, for they had promot e d lines—first from Bl ac kb urn t o Chorley 9 i miles, Chorley t o Standish CI mil e s, St an di s h t o Hindley 3 1 miles, Hindl e y to St. ilelaetn'ststB. Helen'smiles miles, a 1 b rmanilceh, ma king a total of near l y 30 li n o near Adlington 1 m il e, a branch miles. But they had only succeeded in obtaining 8 miles in their integrity, and jointly with the Lancashire and York shire Company 10 miles; while the line had been shortened from St. Helen's to the junction of the London and North- Western Railway at Hilsbury. The resolution having been seconded by Mr. DUGDEN, was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN Bali they had running powers given them to St. Helen's with the use of the stations and branches, and those powers improved their position considerably, the London and North-Western becoming the lessees of the line, The proceedings then terminated. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The adjourned Wharncliffs meting of this company was held at the London Tavern on Saturday ; Mr Brodrick in the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, formal resolutions ap ' proving the following bills were unanimously adopted :—A bill to authorise the construction of railways from the Sil verdale and Newcastle Railway, at Wolstanton, to the old Manor-house at Madely, and thence to the Nantwich and Market Drayton and London and North-Western Railways and for other purposes—a bill to autborise the construction of several railways and a canal, chiefly in the parishes of IVolstanton and Andley, by the North Staffordshire R.il way Company, and to confer other powers upon such corn. pany and various other companies and the Duke of Bridge. water's trustees—a bill for making a railway from the Pot teries line of the North Staffordshire Railway to near Tun stall, in the parish of Wolaston, in the county of Stafford, and for other purposes—and a bill for incorporating a com pany and for making and maintaining the Macclesfield, Col lington, and Marple Railway, and for other purposes. GLASGOW AND SOUTH WESTERN. A Wharneliffe meeting of this company waa held at Glas- ut it i after the name of th e or i g i na l r ogue who p practice. All old horses have their incisor teeth c an immense length, and they always slant out at most acute angle; to do away with this mark o antiquity they are filed down to about the ordinal.: length of a five.year-old, and the dark mark Whin are alvi.2 l present in these t e eth in young ho rse are made with d hot iron, and, by the aid of graying tool, mouth-ma:kg are engraved , go as . i imitate nature. The few grey hairs which e!' scattered about the animal are all reduced to th i general colour by means of a paste corresponding roce that tint with that of the natural coat , a p termed gypping. Finally, those deep indentation.: which appear over the eves of all ancien t an are obliterated by pricking the skin in differec paces, and blowing air into the cavity und erneat h The holes immediately close, and a smooth brow I. obtained, which is not easily detected. The make -li t_ is just as effective, and perhaps more so, to Wel', novices in horse flesh, than is that of the toilet ail many passe ladies who manage to make a P °U market in the world. " The Knock," or lame h orse, au incurable screw, afflicted with d i sease of the, navicular joint, or shoulder lameness, which make any outward show, is a great favoullte for horse-coping purposes, as he is often a fine loft ing animal. The manner in which the lameness i! disguised is to take off the shoe from the sound foot, place a pebble or horse bean between it and the sole of the foot, and nail it on again. A correspond, ing lameness is thus produced in both feet, and this means the original defect is masked. It li t seem strange that a double lameness should neither .0,1 be le apparent than single lamenes s , but we are so giv.e to judge simply by comparison, that unif ormlll baffles us, or, at least, it generally does those ill; perienced persons who are fond of relying uP° l3 t , a li f e e y own judgment, and consequently fall an COY F n l f to this class of swindlers. When a man know s °l', a little of horseflesh, it is remarkable how Pe s ` ti n . he is, and how proud of relying upon his own 11 0 ; 3 aided judgment in making his purchases. Th is f w it, coper knows full well, and takes advantage °; he r " The Bobby," or chinked backed horse, is e n° ,7 t o favourite flat-catcher. To all appearance, elm n d the most experienced eye, he is perfectly soun",, ll ; - . 3 goes with splendid action, and it is only when 7, 1 d, mounted that the weak place in his spine is dete c r ilf or by pinching with the fingers and thumb We'll down the vertebra. COUNTRY MARKETS. YORK--SATURDAY. There was but a limited supply of wheat at mark e , t rs day, and prices being the turn in favour of sellers, %op healthy trade. Very little barley shown, but trade B;'ci bu per and last week's rates maintained. Oats healthy, at v si. qr more money. Beans sca r ce, and a lair amount of ness was done at prices in favour of the seller. 4 .,.,20' Wheat, red 37s to 39s Oats.... lBs ''" 3 - 4; White do .40s to 44s Beans 32, to .. ...-t ~ Barley .25s to 28s Peas .. ..•. __ ..,.s to, 2 / . Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; r ye, 28 s p e r qr ; 11 °' to_29s,per sack. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. 63 S t.; Old white wheat,:4ls to 45s ; red, 38s to 41s per h new white, 425 . t0 44 s ; re d, 39 s t o 41 s . M a lting - 1 2 ' 4 ,0 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 30s ; oats, 26s ; new, 20a to24s; b eans , 35s to 38s ; peas, 34s to o°' LE I C A moderate show offwheat ß , and a fair bueinsss done sand per qr over late rates. Barley came to hand sparinglY ice s, met a moderate demand at littl e or no a l terat i o n in P r ; 36 —New white wheat, 41s to 45s ; red, 38s to 41d P i li n g, stone. Old red, 38s to 42s pe r 36 s t one . B ar l e y, re,,, e ' o te, new, 32s to 36s per qr.; g ri n di ng , 27 s t o 29 s ; 031 , 10/ 0 1 26s to 30s; new oat s , 20 s t o 24 s per 24 s t on e. ne , old, 40s to 42s per 38 sto ne ; fl our , 25 s t o 30 s per 20 o‘°- NORWICH—SATURDAY. s Of There was not so libe ra l a supply of wheat to-c 199 °es late, and the farmer s no t b e i ng rea d y se ll ers , the fuligllicper of Saturday were maintained, and in some instances " t t b qr over. In other ar ti c l es an i nact i ve tra d e, a t o° ll rates of this day se'nnight. White wheat. 42s to 44s Red wheat 385 to ^ 4 4 ° : Malting barley ...35s to 36 s Ch eva li er b ar l e y. • .33 5 t° 2 0 Distilling d 0.... , 29 s t o 30 s Oats.. 24s to Flour, 25s Od to 26s Od per sack from the miller' NOTTINGHAM SATURDAY. „.„„st A tolerable show of wh ea t t o • d ay, w i t h a s t ea dy iiiclu" Is over late prices. B ar l ey li m i te d i n supp ly, with, ' I o l la business, and last w ee k' s rates a b out suppor ted. u a better demand, a n d l a t e pr i ces W ere suppor t e d. Bean good demand, at full p r i ces , but scarce. Peas unch an gi. —White wheat, from 37 s 2. 40s ; red wheat, 36 s to 3°t, Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 295. 03 ; old, at 24s to 30 s Od; new 19s to 255. Beans hold at 35 to 42s . per qr. ; new, 35s to 38s. DUBLIN—FRIDAY. hes t No change in Irish gra i n o f an y ki n d. F ore ign w , r in improved demand a t f u lly l a t e ra t es . A f a i r i nq uiry A° maize ; value unchanged. Flour slow, but steady. Flour, fine, 27s to 295; super, 31s to 36s per 20 stone. a. d. s. d. s. d. 5. il. Wheat, white.. 24 0t026 6 I Oatmeal lO otol3 0 Do., red 2l 6to 24 0 Beans.. ..... oto 1 2 Do., new - n ' Barley - v Oats - 9 0 to 12 0 Do., black.... 0 to 0 4peseed .... Bakers' flour .. 14 0 to 20 0 Indian corn .. 27 0 to 28 0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. .. Jnne L S ' . via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. July b o " Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Jun g . 1 - China, Penang , and Singapore, via Southampton. Ju ne 4 : via Marseilles ...June 4 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via S o uth ampton June - India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Junel2B via Marseilles June 7 25, India (Bombay), vi a S ou th ampton June no . via Marseilles ........ June Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Adcn, via Southampton...... .., T un- 0, Juli 5 0 via Marseilles 2 "' un Newfodland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. Ame r i ca , b y B r it. pac k et .. • • 4 tin by U.S. packet.... 24 , by Canadian packet. Ju ne 11l parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 J a ne 28 ' California. and British Columbia. DRAGONETTI AN D HIS DOLLS.—Then Dragoneto • in him what a strange being I shall have to describe ;. he was a kind-hearted man, abounding with ecce ntriciti es by nature a lover of th e fi ne ar t s ; an d on hi s instruinee the double bass, perfection. The power and tones b° Pr° ; duced from his unwieldy i ns t rumen t were won d er ful, and to this he added great an d ra pid execut i on. Th e ends °fl hio fingers had become by practice broad, covered with 091114 and almost without for m . T a k e hi m out o f hi s pr ofessi ° ' ( i he was a mere child, g i ven t o th e greatest f r i vo li t ies. 110 a single life, and occupied one lodging for years ; w hi- nt lodging consisted of a bedr oom , s itti ng - room , an d a vac% apartment,which c on t a i ne d hi s co ll ect i on o f paintings, 0°1: vings, and dolls. Dolls—do not start, reader, a strange W ee-- : ness for a man of genius to indulge in, but so it W as ' white dolls, .brown dolls, dark dolls, and black, l ar g e' small, middling, and diminutive, formed an important feat ture in his establidlment. Th e l arge bl ack do ll h e woul d call his wife, and she used to t rave l w i th him sometimes to the festivals. He and Li n dl ey generally journeyed togs ther inside the coach, and w h en changing horse s ill serae little village, he would take this black doll and da nce it at the window, to the infinite as t on i s h ment and amusement of the bystanders. 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Lady O A I the e rer 0 11 t b h y i , n o e f t . a , at t daughter. s square' A B t h E e B c H R o ° II I4 . AINSLIE.—On the 16th inst., at CorfeParsonage, Taunton,Qrtnlan. the wife of the Rev. Alexander Colvin Ainslie, of a ° l ' . HOLLAND.—On the 17th inst ,at 66, Porchester - te rracet Hyde -park, th e w if e of Wm: J. Holland, of a daught er ' SMITH.—On the 17th inst., at Hertford House, Kil burn ' .N.W,, the wife of Sydney Smith, jun., Esq., of a soh' Marriages. CIIEROIS.—TENNANT..--On the 16th inst,, at the parish ~ church, Cammoney, Nicholas De la Cherois. of 13 a 1 1; william, in the county of Down, Esq.. J.P., late of 7th Dragoon Guards, to Annie, second daughter of 1' James Tennant, of Bush-park, i n th e cou nty of Antrim, J.P. and D.L. o h DENBY.—LIDINGTON.—On th e 16th i ns t., at the part church of Whitfield, Northamptonshire, Alfred DenhY of New lient•road, Londo n , t o Anue, second daughter of Stephen Lidington, Esq.. of Whitfield. Deaths. CALLIS.—On the 15th inst., at Little Bowden, near Mar ket Harborough, John Callis, Esq., aged 60. GURNEY.—On the 6th inst., at Cadiz, accidentally killed by a fall fro m hi s h orse , Li eu t. Ch ar l es Gurney, 7 (11 11 , 037.1 Fusiliers, second son of William Gurney, 1 '4 ( 0 aged 28. MOWBRAY.—On the 16th inst., at his residence, Grange' w,)od House, Leicestershire, Captain Thomas Mowbray, R.N., aged 70. TANCBED.—On the 16th inst., at 13, Montague-stre et, Russell-square, the Dowager Lady Tancred. SMITH.—On the 16th inst., John Hamlin Smith, Esq., of Brighton, aged 55. SWEETMAN.—On the 11th inst., at his residence, Daßone, St. Atbau's, Samuel Bedlow Sweetman, Esq., aged 75. ----- London: Pen Zed and rushed by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office No. ,12, Strand, in the Precinct of the '3avoy, .0 the chgpf y 01 4tia4Liacai.—litow2ay, Juke 20,15431,